Hyderabad, Oct. 24 -- The El Nino effect has severely affected drinking water supply across Hyderabad. Resident welfare associations have urged residents to use water judiciously amid a possible shortage.

A video has emerged on social media of a man on a bicycle with a loudspeaker asking people of Panchavati Sai Lakshmi Colony in Manikonda not to waste tap water or borewell water to wash cellars, roads, cars, or terraces.

The Telangana government has acknowledged that the state had received 27 per cent less rainfall than normal and that official reports indicated groundwater scarcity in 324 of the state's 621 mandals.

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said that water storage was reduced to less than 20 per cent of its capacity, and availabi...